Trump tries to claim he dissolved 2 councils of CEOs after advisory group chooses to disband

Source: raw story



16 Aug 2017 at 13:43 ET


President Donald Trump is claiming he dissolved two councils of CEOs after multiple CEOs resigned from one panel and the other chose to disband altogether.


After the resignations of three executives from President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, Axios.com was contacted by executives from the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum, who said they had decided to disband.

“CEOs on President Trump’s top outside business-advisory group decided Wednesday to disband amid the tumult over his response to this weekend’s white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, top business sources tell Axios,” said Allen on Wednesday.

Moments after Axios made the announcement that the Strategy and Policy Forum is disbanding, President Trump tweeted that he was ending both groups, apparently trying to take credit for the executives’ decision.

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Mods. I know there is a story about Trump saying he is dissolving the 2 councils in LBN but I feel this story is significantly different.
I will move if you want.

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Mike Allen 2 hrs ago

Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult

https://www.axios.com/top-trump-business-group-to-disband-amid-over-charlottesville-2473718256.html


Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

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"Debate over the forum has become a distraction and the group has decided to disband," a top executive said as a conference call of the CEOs continued.

How it happened: The decision was made quickly, the executive said: "Given the comments of the last several days, no one could continue to be seen as supporting this kind of divisiveness."



Why it matters: Trump's "both sides" response to the violence has made CEOs even more wary of interacting with the White House, with many of them facing pressure from employees and shareholders to distance themselves. We are witnessing the swiftest, biggest big business rebuke/revolt of the Trump presidency.
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List of members, via Axios' Erica Pandey:......................